Re: 3dfx - a security hazard?
Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:47:12 -0500 (EST)
Tigran Aivazian writes the following:
>Sorry, still not convinced. :)
>
>Saying to a user who has just written his new flight simulator which
>requires access to /dev/mem "oh no - access to this device is definitely
>restricted!" is exactly the same as saying to another user whose new game
>needs access to /dev/3dfx "oh no - this device is a security hole, can't
>give you access to that!".
If the flight simulator is using svgalib, the situation is very similar
indeed. And I think most of us will agree in hindsight that svgalib was a
security hazard in real life, and that the mistake should not be repeated.
--
Alan Curry
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